Question
Write a note on the popular participation in overthrowing the ancien regime.
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The overthrow of the *ancien régime* in France, culminating in the French Revolution of 1789, was significantly shaped by widespread popular participation. The *ancien régime* referred to the monarchical, aristocratic, and feudal social and political system that had dominated France for centuries. While intellectual critiques by Enlightenment thinkers such as Rousseau, Voltaire, and Montesquieu laid the ideological foundation, the actual dismantling of the old order was propelled by diverse sections of the population—urban workers, peasants, women, and even some segments of the bourgeoisie. The popular participation was first visibly demonstrated in the storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, a symbolic act that marked the beginning of the Revolution. The Bastille, though housing only a few prisoners at the time, represented royal tyranny. Its fall was not a planned military campaign but a spontaneous uprising of Parisian workers and common citizens who sought to arm themselves and protect the National Assembly from a royal counter-revolution. This act galvanized further action across the country. Simultaneously, in the countryside, peasants rose in revolt during what is known as the *Great Fear* (La Grande
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